The universities minister, Sam Gyimah, has demanded action to further protect free speech at universities and has offered to work with the sector to create new guidance. (...) - University World News, by Brendan O'Malley, 04 May 2018 Issue No:504 Share

Twenty years after the Sorbonne Declaration, the key challenges of opening up higher education, improving the quality of teaching and learning, reforming assessment and recognition and promoting internationalisation and mobility remain the same for all countries in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). We believe that digitalisation can significantly contribute to overcoming them. (...) - University World News, by Dominic Orr, Peter van der Hijden, Florian Rampelt, Ronny Röwert and Renata Suter, 04 May 2018 Issue No:504

The number of foreign students studying at universities on the Chinese mainland is closing in on the half a million mark, with 489,200 students in 2017, according to the latest figures from the ministry of education in Beijing released last week. (...) - University World News, by Yojana Sharma, 03 May 2018 Issue No:504 Share

The European Commission today proposed spending €100 billion on research from 2021 to 2027 under its next continent-wide science funding program. That is less than some research groups had hoped for. Still, they say it is a good—but not great—opening bid in what are expected to be lengthy negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Union’s member states on a final spending plan. (...) - Science, by Tania Rabesandratana, 2018/05/02

Teachers unable to pay the bus fare to get to class; students stuck in long supermarket lines in the quest for affordable food: Venezuela’s academics say the deep economic crisis is paralysing the country's universities, writes Alex Vasquez for AFP. (...) - University World News, AFP, 20 April 2018 Issue No:502

ODI's Caroline Cassidy and Louise Ball with their list of things to be avoided (but we do them anyway) when trying to communicate research findings (...) - ofamblogs.org, by Caroline Cassidy and Louise Ball, 2018/02/09

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to increase funding of national science by 150% over current levels by the end of the year, according to the press service of the Presidential Administration of Russia. The increase will be applied to unallocated funding under Russia’s existing science and technology programme 2014-20, and will increase the amount available from RUB40 billion to RUB60 billion (US$644 million to nearly US$1 billion). (...) - University World News, by Eugene Vorotnikov, 14 April 2018 Issue No:501

At universities in Canada, as in many other countries, professors must have their research plan approved by the research ethics board or REB at their institution before they can launch their study. This process ensures that participants are not exposed to physical or psychological harm. (...) - University World News, by Grace Karram Stephenson and Emmanuelle Fick, 04 May 2018 Issue No:504

Taking a user-centered approach to the “problem” of ResearchGate rather than a copyright ownership-centric approach brings a different lens to the decision-making around negotiations with ResearchGate. (...) - The Scholarly Kitchen, by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, 2018/05/02

As college tuition continues to rise at a staggering rate, people tend to worry about how much harder it becomes for students and families to pay for college. As researchers who focus on higher education, we found a different reason to worry. We examined tuition hikes at public four-year colleges and universities over a 14-year … (....) - Academics, by Drew Allen and Gregory Wolnak, 2018/ 04/26

BACKGROUND: Peer review is used to determine what research is funded and published, yet little is known about its effectiveness, and it is suspected that there may be biases. We investigated the variability of peer review and factors influencing ratings of grant applications. (...) - CMAJ April 23, 2018 190 (16) E489-E499, by Tamblyn R et al

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee, with many universities pushing for scholarly journals to become open access, writes Diana Kwon for The Scientist. (...) - University World News, by The Scientist, 20 April 2018 Issue No:502

A 12 April report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers ideas for reshaping the landscape of life-science research across all career levels in the US biomedical research pipeline. (...) - Naturejobs Blog, by Karen Kaplan, 2018/04/17

SINGAPORE - At least 170 academics have voiced concern about academic freedom in Singapore, with several saying that diverse views should be encouraged and not quashed.. (...) - straitstimes.com, by Joanna Seow, 2018/04/13

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